A NEW special free school for the London Borough of Croydon - Addington Valley Academy
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A NEW special free school for the London Borough of Croydon
Vision
I am delighted to be the Principal of Addington Valley Academy, a new
Welcome
Our vision for Addington Valley Academy is to provide a positive environment where
special free school in Croydon for children and young people with autism children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) access specialist
and learning difficulties. support that enables them to learn and achieve.
We are currently located at our refurbished, temporary site in Canterbury Road, Croydon
until our newly constructed school, purpose designed to meet the needs of pupils and
students with autism and complex needs, opens at Field Way, New Addington from
Achievement, Wellbeing,
September 2021. Communication and Independence
To realise our vision, we will:
From September 2021, Addington Valley Academy will be a co-educational special school
with up to 150 places for children and young people aged 2-19 who have autism and social • work with students, families and the community to provide a kind,
communication, cognitive, sensory and social, emotional, and behavioural needs. caring and collaborative environment that engages, inspires and challenges
• develop young people’s independence and communication skills to ensure
You can look at the plans and see more details about our new school on our website meaningful outcomes for all students
www.addingtonvalley.org
• support and prepare students for adulthood and life after school
I hope this guide helps to bring our school to life and gives you a sense of our commitment
• ensure the whole school community is valued and respected
to your child.
Mr John Reilly - Principal
Values
Our provision and curriculum is underpinned by a communication and positive
behaviour based model. It includes therapeutic approaches, sensory integration and
supports students to access the core and wider curriculum and understand their world.
Initiation – how students investigate a new experience or task.
Exploration – how students continue to explore a new experience or task.
Persistence
– how students continue to concentrate and stick with
a new experience or task.
Realisation
– how students use the knowledge learned through
a new experience or task.
Anticipation
– how well our students can model a familiar experience
or task in their minds.
We use these values to celebrate daily achievements and acknowledge
progress made.
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Our Pupils and Students
All our pupils and students have an Education, Health
and Care Plan (EHCP) to support their complex social,
sensory, behavioural and physical as well as speech,
language and communication needs.
We envisage a community and wider society
where all people on the autism spectrum lead the
life they choose, free from discrimination.
All children and young people should be
understood, supported and valued for what they
bring to their local community.
Autism Home School Partnership
Focus
We work closely with our families so you feel
very much involved in your child’s development
and are able to continue the support outside of
school. To help with this, our pre-and post-school
enrichment arrangements will include time for
Every day we set up classrooms that are engaging and
parents/carers to be actively involved with their
designed to facilitate a quality educational experience for children, as well as working collaboratively on
learners with autism. home-school strategies to promote wellbeing and
‘wraparound’ learning.
Staff receive specialist autism training to gain depth of
knowledge and understanding of the Autism Competency
Frameworks for Early Years, Key Stages 1–4 and post-16, in
order to plan for the overall autism provision at the academy.
I think
your school
A primary focus for the school is the development of
educational practice to support children and young
and staff are
people with autism and a range of co-existing needs.
Staff are trained to deliver the competency standards
amazing and from the Autism Education Trust which is approved by
the DfE to enable schools to deliver the DfE autism
you have standards. All teaching staff are trained in the principles of
TEACCH (Treatment of education of autistic and related
wowed me! communication children), Attention Autism and PECS
(Picture Exchange Communication System).
Parent, November 2020
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Curriculum Approach
The school promotes and supports the development of positive behaviour support programmes
independence, self-esteem and confidence for each
young person. person-centred learning
real life learning opportunities within a framework that
Our curriculum approach involves providing:
is flexible, safe and responsive to individual needs
a high level of structure
opportunities to enable and empower children and
low arousal environment with clearly defined areas for
young people to identify and work towards their
group and individual work
personal aspirations
visual strategies
For more detailed information about our individualised
specific communication programmes approach to the curriculum please refer to our website.
A Practical Focus
Our aim is to ensure enjoyment of learning and and help them to access the next stages in their education,
achievement in all subjects within the school work and personal lives.
through a focus on practical and active learning
that encourages engagement and understanding The opportunities to develop collaborative and co-operative
of the wider community. skills, improved listening and co-ordination and the ability
to express oneself appropriately and meaningfully, are
Students will be offered vocational programmes as key features across the curriculum and crucial to students
appropriate to support the development of the curriculum
holistic and rounded development.
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Our New School
Therapy Focus
Addington Valley Academy
offers a structured, integrated
therapy package to support each
student’s progress in line with
their EHCP.
We offer onsite speech and
language therapists, occupational
therapists and canine assisted
learning, as well as intensive Our brand new, purpose-designed school is due What is a free school?
therapeutic support, advice and to open in September 2021. It will be located at Free schools are independent state-funded schools.
guidance for families. Field Way, New Addington and will welcome up to They provide a way for groups of parents/carers, teachers,
150 children and young people aged 2-19. It has charities, existing schools or other organisations to respond
been specifically designed to meet the needs of to a need for a new school in their community – whether
students with autism and social communication, for extra places, to raise standards or offer choice. They
cognitive, sensory and social, emotional, and can be primary, secondary, all-through or 16- 19, and can
behavioural needs. open specifically for children with special educational
needs or those who struggle in mainstream schools
(alternative provision). Once established, free schools are
Follow our progress legally academies so are funded by central government.
More information on Free Schools can be found at
Visit addingtonvalley.org for the latest new school
developments. You can also watch live footage of the newschoolsnetwork.org/whatare-free-schools
new school construction.
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Opening Events
Visit www.addingtonvalley.org
for the latest information about
Open Events, or contact
enquiries@addingtonvalley.org for more details.
Location
It will be located at
52 Field Way,
New Addington,
Croydon
CR0 9AZ
Admissions My son was very anxious about
All children and young people joining the school Each application would be considered on the following starting at a new school, but
must have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) indicators:
after one week he said it was
naming the school, or be referred for the purposes of
being assessed for an EHCP in accordance with the The student’s main presenting special educational ‘the best school’. He has tried
Children and Families Act 2014 (Section 34). need is autism
many new foods and I have
Parents wishing their children to benefit from our provision
Delayed speech development added some of them to his
should ask their local authority to name our school in their Social interaction difficulties leading to social isolation regular diet. His maths skills are
child’s EHCP.
Impulsive and unpredictable behaviour which puts improving, but best of all, he
The school would consider applications for children and
other children and young people, staff and peers at risk said ‘I have a friend’ – which is
young people whose primary need is autism and whose Extreme reactions to everyday problems huge! Thank you for all of the
needs require specialist schooling.
Learning needs as a result of or in addition to autism effort – it really shows.
which impact on the development of the child Parent, November 2020
Further Information
For further information about our school contact
enquiries@addingtonvalley.org or visit the school’s
website, www.addingtonvalley.org
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For more information about our exciting new school visit www.addingtonvalley.org or email enquiries@addingtonvalley.org or call 0345 402 0453. Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) and Orchard Hill College (the College) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for over 1500 pupils and students from nursery through to further education across London, Surrey and Sussex. Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family of providers have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including complex autism; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
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